#u

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#coming #complain #did #earn #gift

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#full #fun #half #half full #i

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#acts #basic #complicated #courage #deal

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#am #being #conclusion #dealt #disease

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #love is #quarters #three

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#congenial #constitution #excellent #food #health